Dr. Brewer served as Marion County Public Schools’ interim superintendent from April 2025 until her appointment on Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n
By Kevin Christian February 25, 2026 2:33 pm<\/p>\n
MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com<\/a>) \u2013 It\u2019s Day One for Marion County Public Schools<\/a>\u2019 new superintendent, and Dr. Danielle Brewer is already connecting with staff, students, and the community.<\/p>\n Brewer officially stepped into the district\u2019s top leadership role after serving as interim superintendent since April 2025. On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, Marion County School Board members unanimously approved a two-year contract appointing her as superintendent.<\/p>\n Brewer becomes the second appointed\u2013and fourth female\u2013superintendent in Marion County Public Schools\u2019 157-year history.<\/p>\n She began her MCPS career as a classroom teacher on Aug. 1, 2005, and steadily advanced through the district, serving as an assistant principal and principal, including most recently at North Marion High School. In 2021, she was named director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Digital Learning, and two years later became senior executive director of High Schools and Secondary Curriculum.<\/p>\n Brewer holds academic degrees in Criminal Justice and Educational Leadership from Saint Leo University, as well as an Education Specialist (Ed.S.) degree from National Louis University, where she also earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Brewer served as Marion County Public Schools’ interim superintendent from April 2025 until her appointment on Feb.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-490248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}